Re: [wiki] horrible reCaptcha

[email protected] wrote:
> On 2015-02-24 08:05 Mike Driscoll<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> We definitely need a Captcha or something similar. There were so many
>> spam bots hitting the wiki
>
> I see.
>
> What about individual securtiy questions I see on so much forums?
> "What is the first name of Albert Einstein?"
> "What is the name of the bird in wxPhoenix?"
> "What is the snapshot-revision number from the [date]?"
> "Who is on top in MVC?"


Yeah, we did that before too. I had a couple dozen questions in the 
config, some of which were wx or Python specific. Unless you are adding 
several new questions per day it doesn't help much once a site has been 
targeted.  A live body will eventually read the questions, figure out 
the answers, and then commit some changes to their script or database 
that auto-fills the answers, and it will then be in the hands of many 
many spammers the next time they update.

On the other hand, I think I am going to remove the requirement of being 
a member of the trusted editors group as using the Captcha appears to 
have eliminated bots creating accounts for themselves.

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org

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